We’ve made no secrets here about how much we LOVE music! From concerts with Train and O.A.R. to musicals like Wicked and movies like Xanadu (that’s right: Xanadu!), music is fundamental to who we are. And what we enjoy. And how we cope. If you’re living with Multiple Sclerosis or another chronic illness, or, heck,…… Continue Reading
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Category Archives: Daily Life
Your challenge: Spice up your life
Experts and bloggers praise the benefits of trying new things. It can do everything from stimulating your creativity to helping you overcome your fears and develop a newfound skill. It often is said that variety is the spice of life. We’re asking you to prove this as part of this week’s self-care challenge. Your challenge:…… Continue Reading
Your challenge: Don’t save it for the seventh inning
This week’s self-care challenge for you is a bit of a stretch. That’s it. Stretch. Stretch regularly and stretch with purpose. It doesn’t even have to be part of warming up or cooling down from an exercise routine. Stretching has countless health benefits all by itself — from improving flexibility to increasing your energy and…… Continue Reading
Seriously: Take a dose of your own medicine
Every other evening, just around 9 o’clock, Dan knows it’s time to stop putting off the inevitable. He’s due to take the injection for his Multiple Sclerosis disease-modifying medication. That’s not to say Dan’s afraid to take his shot. But after taking a subcutaneous shot every other day since he was diagnosed 18 years…… Continue Reading
Get inspired to overcome MS-related frustrations
Getting upset seems like it happens several times each day when you’re living with Multiple Sclerosis. Common occurrences include dropping your phone because your numb hands can’t feel it. Missing a social event because you know the freshly fallen snow will compromise your balance. Getting to the bathroom two seconds too late. Frustrations happen. So…… Continue Reading
Research shows promise to fix progressive MS damage
We regularly receive emailed news releases from Multiple Sclerosis-related businesses and organizations. The Tisch MS Research Center of New York sent us one on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018, that in 11 words truly shifted our outlook on living with MS: “RESEARCHERS SHOW STEM CELL THERAPY MAY REVERSE DISABILITY IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS” Boom. It was as…… Continue Reading
Our challenge: Take a nap or give it a rest
Have you been participating in Dan and my self-care challenges these past three weeks? Did you download the Health Storylines app or visit healthstorylines.com to set up your free account? It’s a pretty valuable and easy-to-use wellness tool. Really, we wouldn’t steer you wrong 🙂 And for this fourth week of our self-care challenge, we…… Continue Reading
Let Me See You Move
As Dan mentioned in his self-care essay, this is your year to be awesome and to make you your priority. Hopefully you had fun with our first challenge last week to focus on eating breakfast every morning. Now can you understand why it’s the most important meal of the day? Congrats on getting a strong…… Continue Reading
This year, make you your top priority
Looking at the calendar, Jennifer and I saw that we are two weeks into the new year. Two weeks already! Usually by the second week of the year, most people have given up on the resolutions they made to improve their lives. Like the intentions to eat less junk food, watch less TV and exercise…… Continue Reading
Trippin’ on Multiple Sclerosis
As we finished our post-church coffee and muffin, Jennifer commented to me, “Why am I so darn tired this morning?” I paused, squinted my eyes as I looked through my mind for explanations, and then smiled. “You do realize that a week ago at this time,” I asked, “we were at the airport in Nashville…… Continue Reading